Farvel til Marmite
May 25, 2011 11:07:12 GMT
Post by Deleted on May 25, 2011 11:07:12 GMT
... or "goodbye to Marmite" in Denmark.
Demark bans Marmite under food safety regulations
(from BBC News)
Denmark has banned the savoury spread Marmite, saying its added vitamins and minerals break food safety laws.
By law, Danish authorities must give their permission for products with such additives to be sold. In recent years they have banned several well-known items - including the chocolate malt drink Ovaltine and some breakfast cereals. Already a shop in Copenhagen has been ordered to remove jars of the British delicacy from its shelves.
BBC Europe correspondent Chris Morris says there are suggestions that the Danish ban could break European law. Outraged expats in Denmark are threatening a campaign of civil disobedience, he says.
Nutritionist Melanie Brown told the BBC she believed a ban on Marmite, which is rich in B-vitamins, as well riboflavin and niacin, was counterproductive. "Marmite plays such a useful part in many people's diet, and in my practice it's incredibly useful for older people...who are short in vitamin B-12. It's full of folic acid, and there's lots of evidence that many women, young women of child-bearing age are deficient in folic acid," she said.
Kelloggs withdrew some brands of breakfast cereal from the country after the legislation passed in 2004 but Marmite had previously escaped unnoticed, reports the UK's Guardian newspaper.
"What am I supposed to put on my toast now?" the newspaper reported British advertising executive Colin Smith, who has lived in the country for six years, as saying. "I still have a bit left in the cupboard, but it's not going to last long."
Marmite Ingredients
Yeast Extract
Salt
Vegetable Extract
Niacin
Thiamin
Spice Extracts
Riboflavin
Folic Acid
Celery Extract
Vitamin B12
It's a relief to see that even some of the "reasonable" countries can make silly decisions from time to time.
Demark bans Marmite under food safety regulations
(from BBC News)
Denmark has banned the savoury spread Marmite, saying its added vitamins and minerals break food safety laws.
By law, Danish authorities must give their permission for products with such additives to be sold. In recent years they have banned several well-known items - including the chocolate malt drink Ovaltine and some breakfast cereals. Already a shop in Copenhagen has been ordered to remove jars of the British delicacy from its shelves.
BBC Europe correspondent Chris Morris says there are suggestions that the Danish ban could break European law. Outraged expats in Denmark are threatening a campaign of civil disobedience, he says.
Nutritionist Melanie Brown told the BBC she believed a ban on Marmite, which is rich in B-vitamins, as well riboflavin and niacin, was counterproductive. "Marmite plays such a useful part in many people's diet, and in my practice it's incredibly useful for older people...who are short in vitamin B-12. It's full of folic acid, and there's lots of evidence that many women, young women of child-bearing age are deficient in folic acid," she said.
Kelloggs withdrew some brands of breakfast cereal from the country after the legislation passed in 2004 but Marmite had previously escaped unnoticed, reports the UK's Guardian newspaper.
"What am I supposed to put on my toast now?" the newspaper reported British advertising executive Colin Smith, who has lived in the country for six years, as saying. "I still have a bit left in the cupboard, but it's not going to last long."
Marmite Ingredients
Yeast Extract
Salt
Vegetable Extract
Niacin
Thiamin
Spice Extracts
Riboflavin
Folic Acid
Celery Extract
Vitamin B12
It's a relief to see that even some of the "reasonable" countries can make silly decisions from time to time.
